[3937] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Many scsi errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil's Kernel Account)
Sat May 16 11:25:45 1998
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 12:25:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Phil's Kernel Account" <kernel@eiterra.nls.net>
Reply-To: kernel@nls.net
To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
cc: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <355DA88E.5A7579ED@piper.hamline.edu>
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Robert Johannes wrote:
#Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
#> Upgrade firmware (ask Quantum, it's the command queuing bug), disable
#> command queuing in the SCSI driver, or do not buy from Quantum.
#Leonard, or anybody concerned:
#It seems like this Fireball bug has been around for a while, I think
#ever since the first appearance of the fireball series of hard drives.
#How come quantum has not done anything about this? Is this a
#"legitimate" bug in quantum's eyes? And if quantum isn't being
#responsive to the bugs that are found in its products, why does the
#linux community continously buy from them? Can't we just boycott this
#product, or something?
This is a known issue at Quantum, and AFAIK, 99% of the Quantum's you buy
these days have firmware that does NOT have the CQ bug. When they found
out about the bug, they made a fix freely available to Quantum customers.
IIRC, the firmware fix was a DOS executable of course, but so's the flash
for my FireGL 1000 Pro. (BIOS 1.58 is here! Yay!)
-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586
Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.0.33 #15 Fri Apr 17 00:22:13 EDT 1998 i586
- Linus says for 'brave people only.' I say 'keep a backup.' - :)
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